Word: mend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rage, Communist Jacques Duclos cried: "That's unconstitutional!" Non-Communists roared with laughter. When asked in the lobby if his party would still vote for Mendès, Duclos shrugged: "Yes, one is not always free to do as he likes." At 2 a.m. the voice of the Assembly President droned out: "419 for, 47 against. Monsieur Mendès-France is invested...
...Mendès and his pretty wife, Lily, drove off to the Elysee Palace for the formal visit to President Coty, and finally, not long before dawn, the new Premier went to bed. But in less than four hours, he was up and beating the political bushes for men who would join him in his 33-day marathon. By week's end Premier Mendès had a Cabinet notable for its youth (average age: 47, the same as the Premier...
...feature: a Ministry for Moroccan and Tunisian Affairs, as support of Mendès' promise to ease the explosive North African problem, giving more independence to the natives of French North Africa...
Gone from government was Foreign Minister Bidault; Mendès kept the Foreign Ministry for himself. The new Premier-Foreign Minister said he might personally go to Geneva to learn what the price of peace in Indo-China would...
Confirmed this week as France's 20th Premier since World War II: Pierre Mendès-France, 47. "I hate politics, I do not indulge in politics, I am not a politician," he says, but his unorthodox approach has proved him to be the most consummate political strategist in France today...